About the Authors

Wenjie Zheng

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

John Olson

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Vikram Vakharia

Affiliation Department of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yizhi Jane Tao

ytao@rice.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YJT WZ. Performed the experiments: WZ YJT. Analyzed the data: WZ YJT JO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YJT VV WZ. Wrote the paper: YJT WZ.